egalitarians
Believers in equality
Egalitarians are people who believe in or advocate for equality among all people—in rights, opportunities, or social standing.
The term applies across political, economic, and social contexts: Egalitarians pushed for universal suffrage.
Someone described as egalitarian treats others as equals regardless of status: She was egalitarian in how she spoke to janitors and executives alike.
Gender equality proponents
- antiracistsThose actively opposing racial prejudice
- integrationistsAdvocates for ending separation
- classlessWithout social divisions
- communitariansAdvocates for shared social bonds
collectivists · mutualists · equity · diversity · accessibility · intersectionality · solidarity · allyship
Maximizers of aggregate welfare
- humanistsAdvocates for human reason
- enlightenmentProfound spiritual awakening
- LockeEnglish empiricist philosopher's surname
- RousseauFrench surname, philosopher or painter
Kant · justice · fairness · impartiality · universalism · rationalists · secularists · cosmopolitans
Believers in popular sovereignty
- progressivesSocial reform advocates
- liberalsLeft-wing political adherents
- socialistsAdvocates of shared ownership
- leftistsPolitical progressives collectively
reformers · radicals · activists · suffragists · abolitionists · revolutionaries · populists · enfranchisement
Advocates of shared ownership
- welfareComfort and prosperity
- taxationCompulsory government revenue collection
- collectivistsGroup-priority ideology adherents
- cooperativesMember-owned collective enterprises
labor rights · wealth gap · living wage · universal basic income · commons · mutual aid · trade unions · worker ownership
feminists
Gender equality proponents
- antiracistsThose actively opposing racial prejudice
- integrationistsAdvocates for ending separation
- classlessWithout social divisions
communitarians · collectivists · mutualists · equity · diversity · accessibility · intersectionality · solidarity · allyship · social justice
utilitarians
Maximizers of aggregate welfare
- humanistsAdvocates for human reason
- enlightenmentProfound spiritual awakening
- LockeEnglish empiricist philosopher's surname
Rousseau · Kant · justice · fairness · impartiality · universalism · rationalists · secularists · cosmopolitans · dignity
democrats
Believers in popular sovereignty
- progressivesSocial reform advocates
- liberalsLeft-wing political adherents
- socialistsAdvocates of shared ownership
leftists · reformers · radicals · activists · suffragists · abolitionists · revolutionaries · populists · enfranchisement · universal suffrage
socialists
Advocates of shared ownership
- welfareComfort and prosperity
- taxationCompulsory government revenue collection
- collectivistsGroup-priority ideology adherents
cooperatives · labor rights · wealth gap · living wage · universal basic income · commons · mutual aid · trade unions · worker ownership · fair trade
- activistsactivist, Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights activists, protester, campaigner
- Utopiansutopians, idealists, visionaries, dreamers, communitarians
egalitarianselitists
Those claiming superiority
aristocrats · authoritarians · supremacists · classists · oligarchs
egalitariansplutocrats
Rulers through financial power
oligarchs · kleptocrats · robber barons · landed gentry · old guard
- egalitarian societyGroup with equal status